Listening in the Field: Recording and the Science of Birdsong Contributor(s): Bruyninckx, Joeri (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262037629 ISBN-13: 9780262037624 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Acoustics & Sound - Science | Life Sciences - Biology - Nature | Animals - Birds |
Dewey: 598.159 |
LCCN: 2017032849 |
Series: Inside Technology |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
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Publisher Description: The transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as biologists turned wildlife sounds into scientific objects. Scientific observation and representation tend to be seen as exclusively visual affairs. But scientists have often drawn on sensory experiences other than the visual. Since the end of the nineteenth century, biologists have used a variety of techniques to register wildlife sounds. In this book, Joeri Bruyninckx describes the evolution of sound recording into a scientific technique for studying the songs and calls of wild birds and asks, what it means to listen to animal voices as a scientist. The practice of recording birdsong took shape at the intersection of popular entertainment and field ornithology, turning recordings into objects of investigation and popular fascination. Shaped by the technologies and interests of amateur naturalism and music teaching, radio broadcasting and gramophone production, hobby electronics and communication engineering, birdsong recordings traveled back and forth between scientific and popular domains, to appear on gramophone recordings, radio broadcasts, and movie soundtracks. Bruyninckx follows four technologies--the musical score, the electric microphone, the portable magnetic tape recorder, and the sound |
Contributor Bio(s): Bruyninckx, Joeri: - Joeri Bruyninckx is Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology and Society Studies at Maastricht University.Bijker, Wiebe E.: - Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor at Maastricht University and the author of Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press) and other books.Pinch, Trevor: - Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press). |